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On Wed, 15 Sep 10 02:15:59 UTC joseph (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Loss of love
Where would you like to live?: Utopian society of accountability & tolerance
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Superstition suppressing another's convictions
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Atticus Finch, The Underground man, Perry Mason, E.K. Hornbeck, Randal Graves
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Erwin Rommel, Ben Franklin, Charles Darwin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Simone De Beauvoir, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Taslima Nasreen, Mary Wollstonecraft
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scarlet O Hara,
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali, HR Giger & Man Ray
Your favorite musician?: Maynard Keenan & Trent Reznor
The quality you most admire in a man?: The sincerity to question without restraint, Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Nonconformist, Objects vehemently to the norms demanded by society
Your favorite virtue?: Faith; like all induced substances, these is the cheapest yet the deadliest
Your favorite occupation?: Over thinking
Who would you have liked to be?: Kierkegaard; Regine Olsen would have never left
Your most marked characteristic?: To be understood & appreciated
What do you most value in your friends?: The conversations, the flow of ideas unmarred
What is your principle defect?: Gullibility in the trusting the goodness of man
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Death of a loved one, a world devoid of reasoning,
What would you like to be?: Reclusive Hermit
What is your favorite color?: Black
What is your favorite flower?: The Alba
What is your favorite bird?: The lonely Raven
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Mencken, HItchens, Gore Vidal & Jigger Latoza
Who are your favorite poets?: Walt Whitman, Gibran, Omar Khayam
Who are your heroes in real life?: Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Robert Ingersoll, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Jefferson
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Simone De Beauvoir, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Taslima Nasreen, Mary Wollstonecraft
What are your favorite names?: Mer De Nomes
What is it you most dislike?: The vain corrupting the whole; irrational greed
What historical figures do you most despise?: St Paul, Ben Stein, Pope Innocent the VIII, Instigators of the Malleus Meleficarum
What event in military history do you most admire?: Tirad Pass, Marshal Paulus & the 6th Army, Replacing of Nivelle
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to blend discreetly; walk the Vienna streets an unnoticed artist
How would you like to die?: Fulfilled at seeing a more rational Iloilo; Centers for inquiry replacing religious synagogues
What is your present state of mind?: Inquisitive
What is your motto?: Conversations recalled are the only honest eulogies anyone will ever have

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